Consumer's rights... or lack thereof.
As far as entertainment media is concerned, we pay for the disc. Real, hard money for a game disc, CD, DVD... or even money for legal downloads. But we have limited rights. No rights to keep a backup copy. If your purchased disc is damaged in any manner, go buy a new one! If your download is lost, you can redownload for free, assuming the company stays around.
Mike Capps is trying to criminalize used game sales. We shouldn't be allowed to sell off discs we paid for? We make no profit... we lose the rights to sue the sotware without a copy. David Jaffe seems to support used game sales, but is careful to word himself in such a way as to not upset other game industry people.
DRM has severely hampered legit PC game sales. It adds needless spyware to comouters and treats paying customers like criminals. Starforce disables virtual drives. That's like banning all knives because they can be used to stab people, ignoring legit uses. And what's it done to curb piracy? NOTHING. Nothing at all. In fact, it encourages piracy because people want to avoid needless add-ons such as DRM. Even paying customers still have to pirate and run a bootleg copy- support the company, avoid the DRM.
And... another fun run-in. Artists like to sell artwork commissions, but the general concensus amongst them is that the buyer should have very few rights to display artwork they paid for. At $40-$75 PER DRAWING from freelancers at DeviantART, FurAffinity, etc, this is unacceptable. I wanted some art pieces I PAID FOR to be removed from the artist's gallery. They refused, citing copyrights, and made legal threats against me. They may own the drawing itself, but I own one of the characters in the drawing. Sega owns the other character. They also got incredibly snotty with me when I said I would no longer buy artwork from them.
I think it's time we start telling the companies to screw off. Demand the copyright laws be done away with and new ones set in place. Remember when angry people would organize and get guns? We don't do that anymore, so I don't see the trends changing.